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When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

The Star Wars franchise famously takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but does Earth factor into things? We have an answer ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Planets are about as scarce as they can be in our summer evening sky. Earth is the only one that’s visible as darkness falls. Just look down instead of up. All of the major planets that are visible to ...

It takes a certain kind of brave (and perhaps foolish) person to join Starfleet and venture into the great unknown, and most of the stories in the Star Trek universe are about an adventure gone wrong.

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around ...

I always look forward to this time of year. As the cloudy, hazy skies of summer wind down, I know in just a matter of weeks we’ll be under some cool, crisp and clear fall air. The fall offers more ...

LAS VEGAS--MindArk, the developer of the science fiction-based virtual world, Entropia Universe, has announced that it is spinning off the functional game side of its business into a separate company.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet as a celestial body orbiting the Sun, possessing sufficient mass for a nearly spherical shape, and having cleared its orbital neighborhood ...